SAFSEC-CPS -- Securing the safety of autonomous cyber-physical systems

Status:

finished

Start date:

2017-09-01

End date:

2019-08-31

Traditionally closed systems are becoming more open towards the new technological advances including modern communication infrastructures, and cloud services. Systems are no longer observed as separated units, but as a part of larger and cooperating systems. These systems make us one step closer to fully autonomous and cooperative systems that are expected to increase the production efficiency and to decrease (potentially completely replace) human effort in harmful environments. In such systems is expected to be able to gather all information needed for the normal functioning throughout the provided communication services, as well as to provide the response whenever it is required.

In order to make this happen, we need to make sure that critical properties such as safety and security are guaranteed. Since the systems we are interested in becoming open, cooperative and autonomous, it is not sufficient anymore to analyze and guarantee these properties independently. We have to be able to address safety and security within a joint effort, since they might mutually enhance, or undermine.

The objective of this project is to explore the nature of interdependencies between safety and security properties in complex autonomous cyber physical systems. This would provide us with knowledge needed to propose new approaches for joint safety and security analysis, in order to enable risk reduction. Based on these findings we plan to develop a new methodology that will guide us throughout the process of identification of safety and security risks, their analysis, and risk reduction in a systematic way.

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Service Realizability Check as a Technique to Support a Service Security Assurance Case (Feb 2020)
Predrag Filipovikj, Aida Causevic, Elena Lisova
21st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT'20)

Using Bayesian Networks for a Cyberattacks Propagation Analysis in Systems-of-Systems (Dec 2019)
Jamal El Hachem , Ali Sedaghatbaf, Elena Lisova, Aida Causevic
Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2019)

Cybersecurity Challenges in Large Industrial IoT Systems (Sep 2019)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Hans Hansson
The 24th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2019)

Towards a Framework for Safe and Secure Adaptive Collaborative Systems (Jul 2019)
Aida Causevic, Alessandro Papadopoulos, Marjan Sirjani
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (COMPSAC 2019)

Investigating Attack Propagation in a SoS via a Service Decomposition (Jul 2019)
Elena Lisova, Jamal El Hachem , Aida Causevic
IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Cyber Security and Resilience in the Internet of Things (CSR 2019)

On Incorporating Security Parameters in Service Level Agreements (May 2019)
Aida Causevic, Elena Lisova, Mohammad Ashjaei, Syed Usman Ashgar
The 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER2019)

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ABB Robotics Industrial
Knightec AB Industrial
Volvo Construction Equipment AB Industrial

Aida Causevic, Docent,Senior Lecturer

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